netdev - [PATCH net V2] Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description

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Date:   Tue,  5 Nov 2019 14:13:48 +0200
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net V2] Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description

Add TLS TX counter description for the handshake retransmitted
packets that triggers the resync procedure then skip it, going
into the regular transmit flow.

Fixes: 46a3ea98074e ("net/mlx5e: kTLS, Enhance TX resync flow")
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

v1 -> v2: Fixed counter description, per Jakub's comment.

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
index 0dd3f748239f..f914e81fd3a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst
@@ -436,6 +436,10 @@ by the driver:
    encryption.
  * ``tx_tls_ooo`` - number of TX packets which were part of a TLS stream
    but did not arrive in the expected order.
+ * ``tx_tls_skip_no_sync_data`` - number of TX packets which were part of
+   a TLS stream and arrived out-of-order, but skipped the HW offload routine
+   and went to the regular transmit flow as they were retransmissions of the
+   connection handshake.
  * ``tx_tls_drop_no_sync_data`` - number of TX packets which were part of
    a TLS stream dropped, because they arrived out of order and associated
    record could not be found.
-- 
2.21.0